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by mindslight 2306 days ago
Because they've already been expended to keep the "growth" party going indefinitely, rather than ever letting things cool off. This includes 2008 - a short hiccup and then full speed ahead, culminating in VC's filling sidewalks and gullies with a glut of consumer goods, hoping for some kind of eventual profit. Eventually the bubble has to pop - when it's not allowed to do so relatively casually, it will do so catastrophically. When it's not allowed to do so at it's own time, it will do so at the worst time.